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IntroductionMaterials used in this studyThe life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war YugoslaviaApotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status todayCollective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversyThe discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacementVelimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement mythThe martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalismRemembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repressionThe dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repressionFrom repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitismDiscourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice"Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism"Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoricComparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitismNational self-glorification in a historical contextDenial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism""We are not antisemites, but" : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers"He was merely quoting the Bible!" : denial of Velimirović's antisemitismRising above the criticisms : refusal to engage in controversy as a form of denial"Tiny mosquitoes" and the mighty "eagle" : who has the right to remember Nikolaj Velimirović?The letter from "a Jewish woman" : Bishop Nikolaj as the savior of JewsThe two kinds of antisemitism : the rhetoric of interpretative denialRepeating the word of God : authority of the Gospels and the reification of antisemitic discourse"Then we are all antisemites!" : "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identityQuestionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitismDeicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retributionAntisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimirović's sanctityThe first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious "cult"Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctityFinding the "right" miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous iconsThe bishop who came "face to face with the living God" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphanyVelimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.